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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2023
Applicant:

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pierre Lansonneur, Lyons, FR;

Michael Folkerts, Costa Mesa, CA (US);

Assignee:

VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1031 (2013.01); A61N 5/103 (2013.01); A61N 5/1048 (2013.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); A61N 2005/1074 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1087 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes at least one processor configured to execute computer executable instructions to cause the system to: generate or obtain a first radiation treatment plan for a treatment target in a patient, the first radiation treatment plan prescribing beam characteristics for a plurality of beamlets or spots in the treatment target, the beam characteristics including a monitor unit value associated with each of the plurality of beamlets or spots in at least a first field; and display, via a graphical user interface, at least one representation of a first distribution of monitor units for the first radiation treatment plan, the at least one representation of the first distribution of monitor units indicating, for each respective monitor unit value, a number of beamlets or spots in at least the first field having the respective monitor unit value.


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